17 Dec '14 09:46>
Originally posted by wolfgang59Originally posted by wolfgang59
Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]"Before discussing the italicized question above, let's establish a representative viewpoint profile of the beliefs regarding eternity of current contributors to this forum: [i]1) Is the concept of eternity plausible? 2) If so, does eternity encapsulate human history? 3) Has an omniscient, omnipotent, omniprese ...[text shortened]... nt contributors to this forum":
1. Yes? No?
2. Yes? No?
3. Yes? No?
Or whatever?[/b]
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[b]Originally posted by Grampy Bobby
[b]"Before discussing the italicized question above, let's establish a representative viewpoint profile of the beliefs regarding eternity of current contributors to this forum: 1) Is the concept of eternity plausible? 2) If so, does eternity encapsulate human history? 3) Has an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable God always existed? Your views?" (OP)
Originally posted by divegeester
1) yes
2) not in my opinion; eternity is not the extension of time, it is the absence of time. Therefore eternity is both before and after the events we experience here and now.
3) I don't know."
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Originally posted by kiki46
"Yes, yes, yes. All are absolutes."
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Originally posted by black beetle
"So:
1) No
2) No
3) No"
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Originally posted by josephw
1) "Is the concept of eternity plausible?"
The concept is conceivable. What eternity is experientially is unknown to man, at least to none living in time.
2) "If so, does eternity encapsulate human history?"
History indicates time as a record of events from the past to the present. Time exists within the material universe, which appears to exist independent of eternity. That's my best answer.
3) "Has an omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, immutable God always existed?"
According to God, yes."
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An unhesitating "Yes" to each of the three questions on the basis of the authority of the Word of God.
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stellspalfie; JS357; roigam; Soothfast; Duchess64; other "current contributors to this forum":
1. Yes? No?
2. Yes? No?
3. Yes? No?
Originally posted by wolfgang59
Or whatever?
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Or whenever?